Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-12-08
PROHIBITION
Has Worked Unspeakable Good in Atlanta,
Therefore Continue 1t.

Has Worked Unspeakable Good in Atlanta,
Therefore Continue 1t.
l have told you in getting evidence
of improvement or deterioration in Il
city that you must go the working
classes. Especially is this true of At
lanta. because this is the third city in
the United States in the proportion of
workers to population. Lawrence,
Mass, leads with 81 per cent of her
population wage-earners, Lowell fol-
lows with 4S per cent. and Atlanta and
Fall River tie for third place with AZ
per cent.
Now here is class of people repre-
senting in the workers of our number
AZ per cent. of the entire population.
Add the women and children who do
not work, and we see this class repre-
sents &C or 20 per cent. of our popula-
ton. If I have shown that this class
is benefited in an unspeakable man
ner by the untried experiment of Pro-
hibition, is it not our duty to con-
tinue this experiment that the great
est good may come to the greatest
number?
One minute further Hooking at his
watch [Cries of go on! Go onr']
There is just one thing further. What
harm has it done? If it has done harm,
let us see what. They said we were
going to be ruined, that bats and owls
would fly in and out and the real
estate nom have the renting of nine out
of ten houses that are rented. They
testify without a break. absolutely
without break, that they have fewer
houses on their lists than they have
ever had since they have been in bust
ness. Two of them had advertised in
the last few days for one hundred
houses, and to-day Mr. Talley told me
that he actually left his office because
he was bored by people who wanted to
get some where to live in this town.
Mr.. Scott told me that he could put
tenants in five hundred houses in thirty
days from tomorrow. They tell us we
have lost in population. There are just
as many houses in Atlanta to-day and
more. and they are all full. Well. if
the population has decreased, who fills
them? Perhaps they are occupied by
shades of Lincoln and Jefferson and
Monroe!
A distinguished friend of mine-and
he is my friend, and worthy of your
confidence always-printed yesterday
some figures to show there were fewer
street taxes this year than last He was
correct as far as he went, but he did
not get to the forks of the creek.
He took his figures from the tax as
SCISSORS books. Now, the men who
give in their taxes are rich men. care
full men, like Judge Hillyer and Major
Campbell Wallace-not like me and a
few fellows around me. This is i'm
portant because those figures looked
like something. He showed that the
number of persons who paid street
taxes in 1885 was 1914. He showed
that the number who paid their tax at
the assessors Office in 1886 was $500.
That shows an apparent decrease Of
PA people. Well, l am seeking after
truth, and that sorter staggered me.
''Is that fact?' I asked. ''ls that the
end of it," l asked Judge Hillyer, and
he has been stuffing me anyhow. No.
In addition to the men who gave in at
the tax assessors Office in 1885. there
were 4. $50 who were looked up-made
to pay with little addition. That made
total of 1894. Next year there were
$500 people who gave in, or PA less
than the year before; but they found
out among the hedges ard byways g.
400, one of whom have no doubt
was which. That makes total of 12,-
064 poll taxes paid last year against T.
994 the year before, showing a gain in
this good old city of 1910 poll taxes.
The figures for this year have not been
furnished. l think they will show an
increase of 5000 or 1000 poll tax in
this city, two-thirds of which, in my
honest conviction, are due to prohibi-
ton. Those are the figures. They
came through Hillyer to me, and give
them TO you without change.
There are esq more children in at